Quotes About Austere

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.

The laws of friendship are great, austere, and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

its somewhat austere and even forbidding limestone exterior

When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy.

The courtroom was an austere place, a large dark chamber clearly designed for Justice rather than, for instance, for Pleasure. You wouldn't hold a dinner party there – at least, not a successful one.

This wine is austere, structured, with great finesse, and a long, lingering finish.

It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.

Liberty is a great celestial goddess. strong, benevolent and austere. Hello august August.

And, in fact, from his face, from the austere and sublime acts of the Vicar of Christ, torrents of light and goodness flow.

He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.

his reverie merged discouragingly into the austere reality of the classroom.

Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.

Better a trickster than a martyr be. What's the difference between a martyr and a trickster, you ask? Here's a quick primer. Martyr energy is dark, solemn, macho, hierarchical, fundamentalist, austere, unforgiving, and profoundly rigid. Trickster energy is light, sly, transgender, transgressive, animist, seditious, primal, and endlessly shape-shifting.

The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured narrowness, an austere frame made to contain the curves of a single body, to circumscribe it, carry it, give it a place, and when I slept at night, I possessed it entirely.

What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind.

I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings, compassion, tenderness and so on, exist only on the periphery and belong on the constructions of society and habit. But she herself- austere and merciless Aphrodite-is a pagan. it is not our brains or instincts which she picks-but our very bones.

persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

The life of study is austere and imposes grave obligations. It pays, it pays richly; but it exacts an initial outlay that few are capable of. The athletes of the mind, like those of the playing field, must be prepared for privations, long training, a sometimes superhuman tenacity. We must give ourselves from the heart, if truth is to give itself to us. ?#?Truth? serves only its slaves.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

Reacher was led through the door on the left and onward to an interview room. Which had no windows. Just four blank walls, and a table bolted to the floor, with two chairs on one side and one on the other. The room had not been designed by the dining room guy. That was clear. There was no blond wood or carpet. Just scuffed white paint on cinder block, and a cracked concrete floor, and a fluorescent bulb in a wire cage on the ceiling.